Fanduel
Enterprise Security Engineering Senior Manager
New York City. Posted 3 days ago
The role
You will lead and scale the Detection and Response (DART) team within the Cyber Fusion Center. You will manage security operations, advanced investigations, and detection lifecycle improvements across multi-cloud, identity, endpoint, and application ecosystems.
What you will do
- Build, mentor, and lead a security team of detection and incident response engineers.
- Set the technical roadmap planning and strategy for DART.
- Establish and manage team rhythms, handovers, on-call schedules, operational KPIs, and training programs.
- Drive proactive detection improvement by converting findings into tuning requests and telemetry uplift.
- Own the CI/CD pipeline and improve detection architecture using AI workflows.
- Own day-to-day triage, queue health, and operational response across SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity, and application telemetry.
- Serve as an operational escalation point and response commander during critical security events.
- Partner with platform teams to maximize the impact of SAGE.
- Direct peacetime operational capacity toward playbook modernization and tabletop exercises.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Risk, and Technology leadership to ensure regulatory and audit standards are met.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in Detection and Response
- 3+ years of direct people management experience leading incident responders and detection engineers
- Deep working knowledge of modern security operations, detection engineering and CI/CD pipelines, incident response lifecycles, and forensic analysis across enterprise environments
- Proven ability to remain calm, direct actions, and communicate clearly to executive stakeholders and engineering teams during high-stakes incidents
- Experience in transitioning teams into intelligence-led, automated, and agentic response environments
- Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, NIST SP 800-61, PR3TACK and cloud security architecture
- Track record of defining, tracking, and improving operational metrics (MTTD, MTTR/MTTC, alert fidelity, false-positive reduction)
Nice to have
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC GCIH / GCFA / GNFA / GCDA)
- Experience operating in high-volume, highly regulated, 24/7 environments (gaming, sports tech, fintech, big tech or large-scale e-commerce)
- Experience with agentic AI/LLM-assisted security workflows and SOAR orchestration development
- Familiar with Neuro-Symbolic AI in Detection and Response
Benefits
- Health plans including programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits
- Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities
- 401k with up to a 5% match
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Short-term or long-term incentive compensation including cash bonuses and stock program participation
- 14 paid company holidays
- Paid sick time
About the company
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. It consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering and operates FanDuel TV.